63: Total crushing, the rage of the Eagle Sauce!
185 kilometers per hour!
This speed, let alone at sea, is an astonishing speed even on the land of Azure Star.
At sea, due to the resistance of seawater and the generally heavy weight of ships, their speed is usually slower.
A speed of 30 kilometers per hour is generally considered good.
A speed of 100 knots at sea is almost an invincible and heaven-defying existence! If a real engagement were to occur, Yamamoto Thirty-eight's fleet could be toyed with like dogs.
Amidst an incredible state of shock, Yamamoto Thirty-eight suddenly realized an even more terrifying problem.
Their ship's radar detection range was only about ten nautical miles. If the enemy ships were truly traveling at 100 knots, they could arrive in front of them in five minutes.
Didn't that mean they were already close at hand?
Rip!
Suddenly, Yamamoto Thirty-eight felt a sharp, needle-like and knife-like sound wave penetrate the entire cabin space, vibrating his eardrums.
This sound wave was like a giant wave surging from the deep sea, suddenly impacting everything around it.
The ships began to tremble slightly under the impact of this force!
Immediately following, the signal board on the warship he was on began to flash wildly, and all warning devices failed!
Even the communication devices had intermittent signals, almost in a state of paralysis.
As the Commander of the flagship, Yamamoto Thirty-eight had lost communication with his other ships and naturally could not command them.
This meant that the thirty thousand warships had entered a state of fighting independently.
“Damn it!”
At this moment, he began to panic. For a military branch like the navy, real-time command is incredibly important.
Without him as the Commander, this fleet of thirty thousand warships would fall into complete chaos.
Boom!
The roar exploded like thunder, shaking the earth and the sky!
Before Yamamoto Thirty-eight could think further, the sound of exploding gunfire came from outside. The dull vibrations made the entire ship sway violently like a drifting leaf.
Amidst the turbulence, Yamamoto Thirty-eight was directly thrown to the ground.
He rolled, struggled, and scrambled to the deck to check the situation.
When he reached the deck, the sight before him instantly drained the strength from his legs, as if they had turned into soft cotton.
In the sky, dense Eagle Country planes, like dark clouds pressing down, circled and roared. Like reapers, they mercilessly fired deadly missiles and machine guns at their Challenger fleet.
Every plane, every missile, was like a burning flame, drawing scorching trajectories across the sky, engulfing the entire battlefield in a sea of fire.
The dense gunfire directly illuminated the entire night sky!
These planes were precisely the top-tier carrier-borne fighter jets of the Eagle Country Aircraft Carrier fleet, the F/A-18E fighter-attack aircraft!
Also known as the “Super Hornet”!
This fighter adopted a twin-engine swept-wing and twin-tail overall layout, making it extremely agile and capable of flying at various tricky angles!
At the same time, the aircraft had abundant external ammunition and cannons, and was also equipped with advanced laser trackers and infrared detection systems!
Each Super Hornet was equipped with one M61 20mm six-barrel cannon, with 1000 rounds of ammunition!
In addition, it carried very advanced air-to-ground weapons, including GBU-10, GBU-12, GBU-24 laser-guided bombs…
And even the powerful Maverick air-to-ground missile AGM-65.
With machine gun strafing and missile tracking, the sea area around Pearl Harbor had now become a chaotic sea of fire.
The Maverick missile was extremely domineering; not only could it lock on, but it was also instant death upon impact.
In an instant, countless Challenger warships in this sea area suffered devastating blows. Accompanied by violent explosions, one warship after another was directly sunk, with burning wreckage and thick smoke floating on the sea.
Some warships were in various states of confusion amidst the hail of bullets, even beginning to crash into each other, with many Challenger warships “killing each other.”
On the backend panel, the number of Challengers decreased by tens of thousands in an instant! The number of warships decreased by hundreds!
In just a short while, the total number of warships decreased by nearly one-third!
Too terrifying!
Yamamoto Thirty-eight was completely flustered. He wanted to command the warships to retaliate with anti-aircraft shells, but the communication system was destroyed, and he had no way to transmit this information.
He could only watch helplessly as his own people were attacked!
“Damn it! Damn the Eagle Country!”
Furious, Yamamoto Thirty-eight directly raised the anti-aircraft machine gun on the warship and began to strafe the Eagle Country fighter jets in the sky.
Da da da da da da!
But his strafing was nothing more than impotent rage.
It was merely the venting of his endless anger and despair.
The Super Hornet had the most advanced defensive systems; even anti-aircraft missiles found it difficult to hit, so how could it possibly be hit by such a rudimentary machine gun?!
Finally, a weary Yamamoto Thirty-eight could only fall to his knees in exhaustion.
“Commander Tominaga! We can only rely on you!”
“Our navy’s communication system is completely paralyzed; only your Air Force can save us!”
“Air-to-air combat, isn’t that your strong suit?” Yamamoto Thirty-eight roared at Tominaga Yukiyasu, who had arrived.
Tominaga Yukiyasu then regained his composure, his expression filled with both anger and unwillingness.
“The Eagle Country is truly going too far!”
“I will let them taste the might of our Great Harmony Air Force!”
He directly called for a small helicopter and then climbed into it.
Then he piloted the helicopter to the highest altitude to get a better overview of the situation.
After an initial observation, he found that although the number of Eagle Country fighter jets was also astonishing, their overall quantity was far less than his side's.
However, the combat power of those Super Hornets was far superior to their helicopters and quadcopters; they were simply not on the same level.
Tominaga Yukiyasu couldn't even imagine that a small aircraft could carry missiles?!
But at this point, there was no other choice.
If their Air Force could not restrain the Eagle Country, then only total annihilation awaited them.
At a life-or-death moment, they could only fight for it!
“All Air Force soldiers, listen to my command!”
“Attack the enemy aircraft with all your might, and defend our warships!”
“For the Emperor! For the Da He Settlement!”
At this command, forty thousand fighter jets swarmed forward, charging towards the Super Hornet formation high in the sky.
These Air Force soldiers fully demonstrated the Bushido spirit of the Da He Settlement; even knowing they might not win, they still wanted to charge forward.
But it could only be said that their spirit was commendable.
There was an unbridgeable gap in technology, making any miracle impossible.
High in the sky, these forty thousand Challenger fighter jets were simply being completely outmaneuvered!